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  • Usage in publication:
    • Bratton shale
  • Modifications:
    • Original reference
  • Dominant lithology:
    • Shale
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Appalachian basin
Publication:

Reger, D.B., and Price, P.H., 1926, Mercer, Monroe, and Summers Counties [West Virginia, with sections on paleobotany and paleontology by D.B. Reger, David White, G.H. Girty, and W.P. Prouty]: West Virginia Geological Survey [County Reports and Maps], [CGR-15], 963 p., (incl. geologic map, scale 1:62,500)


Summary:

Pg. 294, 318. Bratton shale. Sandy shale, red in places, greenish brown in other places; 25 to 35 feet thick. Underlies Bratton sandstone and overlies Upper Belcher sandstone (all members of Bluestone group [Bluestone formation]). Type locality same as Bratton sandstone.
[The Bluestone group is a term used by some geologists to include same rocks as Bluestone formation of USGS reports (US geologic names lexicon, USGS Bull. 896, p. 222).]

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 896, p. 254).


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